The best part of this bar is the collection of old b&w photographs hanging on every spare space on the walls. The featured folks are some famous and some not-so famous Missoulians from a bygone era (the 60s? 70s?), who will smile down on you while you enjoy a cheap pitcher of PBR or a local brew (a lot of people like Moose Drool, but I'm more of a Summer Honey/Beltian White kind of girl...though Beltian White travels about 200 miles from Belt, MT).

If you're into this sort of thing, Esquire magazine voted it one of the best bars in America, saying, "Without question the best place in the country to find a beautiful woman who can gut her own trout."

The kinda-Cajun Dinosaur Café runs out of a window in the back of the bar and offers étoufeés, gumbo, alligator po' boys, jambalaya and the like, but for milder tastes, they also serve excellent soup, pulled pork sandwiches, dirty rice, and even cheap steaks.

Located within the mediocre and slightly rundown O'Haire Motor Inn in downtown Great Falls, the Sip N Dip Lounge will exceed your expectations...assuming you go in with an open mind and a sense of humor.

To start off the adventure, park in the upper lot, but go over the steep ramp slowly if you don't want to catch air at the end. The Sip N Dip pushes tiki décor to its kitchy limit, the drinks are cheap and the crowd is varied, but the real claim to fame are the mermaids (and the occasional merman.) Behind the bar is a large window looking into the hotel pool. On Friday and Saturday nights, mermaids dressed in bikini tops and mermaid mono-limb suits flit and bob and make eyes at patrons through the window, working their non verbal flirting magic with the hopes of dollar bill tips taped to the window. Six nights a week, the famous Piano Pat tinkles the ivories, as she has for over 40 years. She takes requests but expect to hear "Sweet Caroline" throughout the night...by round two you will be slapping the table and singing along to the "bah bah baaaaaahhhhhhh"s with the people sitting all around you.

In case you still aren't convinced, the Sip N Dip was rated the number one bar on Earth by GQ Magazine.

The Missoula Club is one of those old school bars where the lights are bright and the pool table is cheap. It's Missoula's oldest bar, I believe, and it has tons of old photos on the wall and generations of Missoulians' names carved into the bar. But the burgers are what bring people. I can't fathom attacking one of the triple burgers you sometimes see people struggle with, but a single, with jack cheese, tastes oh-so-good with a $6 pitcher of PBR. Yum.